On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 09:44:22PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> "Saalfeld, Christoph" wrote:
> >
> > I want to make an index for my document. Now I have some index entries that
> > contain german umlauts such as "�,�,�" and I want them to be sorted like
> > normal "a,o,u". The behavior in the moment is that "makeindex" places words
> > with umlauts as first character at the beginning of the index and not into
> > the "A,O,U" sections of index.
> > Is there an option to let LyX pass a commandline option to makeindex, so it
> > will create a german index ?
>
> example for word �fter (the cursor is left or right
> from this word):
>
> insert-> index entry-> ofter@�fter
>
> the first is for sorting, the second is the output.
You can also try using xindy (http://www.iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/xindy/)
instead of makeindex.
